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50 Years of Environmental Stewardship Vermont Natural Resources Council: 50 Years of Environmental Stewardship Published by The Vermont Natural Resources Council 2012 Vermont Natural Resources Council: 50 Years of Environmental Stewardship Copyright © 2012 by Vermont Natural Resources Council Elizabeth Courtney, Executive Director (1997-2011) Written and Edited by Stephen Holmes, Former Deputy Director (1992-2010) Layout by James Sharp, Ofice Manager Cover image modiied from an original photograph of Worcester by Tim Seaver / vermontphoto.com All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. Published by: Vermont Natural Resources Council 9 Bailey Avenue Montpelier, VT 05602 Acknowledgments This VNRC history would not have been possible without the help of our Board Chair, Kinny Perot, and many other board members, staff members, and friends of VNRC, past and present. Marion MacDonald, VNRC’s Staff Editor during the 1980’s contributed to this text. Her work is shown in italics in the irst three chapters. _ iii _ iv Table of Contents Introduction The Tumultuous 1960s - A Decade of Change and the Co-Inventors of an Important Idea 1 The 1970s - AN EPIC Era 15 The 1980s - The Laws that Roared 27 The 1990s – It’s the Economy…and the Environment 45 The Third Millennium: Coming of Age in the 21st Century Amidst New Challenges 71 Voices from the Past – Visions for the Future 107 Appendices 121 _ v _ vi An Introduction from Elizabeth Courtney, Executive Director 1997-2011 In 2013 Vermont Natural Resources Council will celebrate a milestone event—50 years of protecting and restoring Vermont’s natural resources– educating, inspiring and activating thousands of Vermonters to champion all that we love about our beautiful state. We’re marking our 50th anniversary by bringing Vermonters together to envision a better future, and to establish a lasting legacy. As VNRC works to raise awareness, spark dialogue and set policies that protect our forests, farms, waters and communities, we celebrate our anniversary and pledge to continue to protect Vermont’s natural heritage and promote responsible development over the next 50 years. This publication is a sample of the best of our accomplishments and ongoing initiatives. _ vii “We’re on the verge of the greatest development Vermont has ever seen.” –Senator George Aiken, on the opening of the Putney section of Interstate highway in 1961 May 11, 1961 Construction of Williston Section of Interstate July 11, 1962 “Sooner or later we're going to end up as all asphalt and concrete.” –Theron Boyd, dairy farmer, from VNRC’s 1971 ilm So Goes Vermont October 11, 1964 The Tumultuous 1960s - A Decade of Change and the Co-Inventors of an Important Idea Challenges * Volunteer amateurs need help - VNRC hires first paid Getting answers to questions about how – and why – * Natural Resources Threatened – VNRC founded by professional staff. VNRC began is a lot like researching the origin of the farmers and foresters universe. There are so many different theories that The year 1963 was captured in song in Bob Dylan’s one is left with the conclusion that it was just one of * Rapid Growth Overtakes Vermont– VNRC urges The Times They Are A-Changin’. Rachel Carson’s those ideas whose time had come. Governor Deane Davis to create an Environmental landmark book, Silent Spring, drawing attention to Control the long-term effects of pesticide misuse and calling VNRC’s irst chairman, Richard M. Brett of Woodstock, Commission for a new way for humankind to view the natural recalls discussing the idea with Lucy Bugbee, Hub Vogelmann and the late Dr. James Marvin. Belmont (Gibb world, had been published the year before. Pitkin and Goddard College founder Royce “Tim” Commission) Pitkin had similar ideas, along with Forests and Parks and advocates The Interstate Highway system had been working its way through Vermont for 5 years, but was still 20 commissioner Perry Merrill. passage of years from completion. Phil Hoff had just taken ofice state planning as the irst Democrat elected Governor of Vermont in As VNRC pillar Jim Wilkinson says, “There was ferment and billboard 108 years. And a growing number of people in in the state to get some kind of organization started.” laws. Vermont were talking about the changing face of the Some of that ferment was distilled and capped at a state and how best to protect its natural resources. statewide conference on “Natural Resources in * Vermont Transition” at Goddard College, February 25-26, 1963. Yankee In the Spring 1984 edition of the Vermont The conference program included an “inventory” of Proposed – VNRC advocates public health. Environmental Report celebrating VNRC’s 20th the state’s resources by the Vermont commissioners of anniversary, then editor Marion MacDonald took us Agriculture, Forests and Parks, Water Resources and * Public Education Needed – Audio-visual program on back to those heady days when VNRC took root in the State Geologist, as well as discussions of the natural resources and conservation created her article “The First Twenty Years”: impact of technology on agriculture and _ 2 “From that time (1925) on until the Perry Merrill transportation and the need for long range “I always loved Vermont, and anything that I present day, the State of Vermont has planning for resource management and saw work in other places, I wanted to apply acquired nearly 170,000 acres of forest development. to Vermont. I was sure that her beauty was land in Vermont. Perry Merrill’s name has so great that people once experiencing it been associated with nearly all According to a June 14, 1963, letter to would want to return again and again. I recreational and forestry developments in participants from conference chairman Sam wanted people to be able to swim in her our state. Perry may well be called the Ogden, “The idea of a Resources Council was lakes, canoe in her rivers, camp in her ‘Father of Vermont State parks,” for it was proposed early in the conference by Mr. Robert forests and drive through her hills and under his guidance that the Civilian Fish, Jr., a trustee of the Vermont Nature valleys. And especially I wanted to know Conservation Corps built the beautiful Conservancy. At a later session the idea was that her natural resources would be areas which both in-staters and out-of- further explored by Mr. Fred Sargent, developed in a way that would preserve staters now enjoy. It was in no small way agricultural economist at the University of them for future generations. I have been due to his aiding and abetting, cajoling and Vermont. At the inal session the conference fortunate indeed to see much of that urging, that Vermont is now noted for its voted unanimously to establish a committee to dream come true.” excellent ski areas. His was one of the formulate a proposal for a Vermont Resources –Perry Merrill first cries in the wilderness for conservation – and conservation education. School Council…” children are still reaping the benefits of his earlier wisdom.” The conference appointed a six-member ad hoc committee chaired by Ogden which drew up –George David Aiken plans and bylaws for the new organization and presented them to a meeting at Goddard on June 27, 1963. An organizational meeting was held the following day, and a press release “Even with his long and very effective years in Vermont government, Perry Merrill dated June 29, 1963, proclaims that: in the early 1960s saw the need for an effective citizen conservation organization. Perry Merrill truly was a visionary person. VNRC shares, and is grateful for, Perry’s conservation ideals and vision.” –Bren Whittaker _ 3 The Tumultuous 1960s - A Decade of Change and the Co-Inventors of an Important Idea The Vermont Natural Resources Council was organized yesterday at Burlington. The “To run down the list of Dr. Marvin’s many Dr. James Marvin objectives of the council are: contributions to the University of Vermont, to the State, to the birth and growth of the 1. To educate the public in regard to the interrelationship of our soils, waters, plants and conservation movement here is to face a life animals, their effect on man and man’s effect on them; that was rich, almost prodigious, in its 2. To promote wise use and preservation of natural resources to the beneit of Vermont achievement. Dr. Marvin was a pioneering citizens; figure in the early days of the Vermont Natural 3. To provide a means for representing all interested individuals and organizations, and Resources Council. He was Professor Emeritus to present their representations to the public. and past Chairman of the Department of Botany at UVM. He was founder and Director Temporary oficers were elected, including: chairman, Sam Ogden; vice-chairman, of the Proctor Maple Research Farm at UVM. Belmont Pitkin; and secretary-treasurer, Perry Merrill. At a meeting later that summer, He was an authority on maple research and permanent oficers were elected and Dick Brett replaced Sam Ogden as president. plant physiology. He was a Trustee and first Director of the Vermont Chapter of The Nature The question of “how” VNRC was formed has at least one other variation. Conservancy. He was a Director of the The following is an excerpt from Perry Merrill’s 1984 Autobiography, The Making of a Conservation Society of Southern Vermont. For Forester: An Autobiographical History, page 99. six years up until his death, he was a member of the Vermont State Environmental Board.” “After some preliminary study, the Vermont Natural Resources Council was organized –Nat Frothingham on May 3, 1963 at a meeting in the Department of Forests and Parks.
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